2016 Research Pics

This Historical Marker was placed at the site of Tukabatchee. The marker was dedicated and unveiled Saturday October 1, 2011. Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma also attended, including descendants of those illegally forced to remove from this area. Thanks to Patti Hall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukabatchee

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Vernon Bird

unsure exactly who this is, but would like to find out. looks like my grandma.

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Mercer Fain was a relative of ours and he was listed in this war in Chickasaw and Choctaw territories, see: http://www.civilwaralbum.com/washita/scanland.htm#MUSTER

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History of Jackson County by J Randall Stanley Pg 68

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Area Creek Indians Live as White Men from Pensacola Journal 1-21-55 pg3of4 - Mvto to Patti Hall

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Area Creek Indians Live as White Men from Pensacola Journal 1-21-55 pg1of4 - Mvto to Patti Hall

Annie Pope Jenkin's real name was Nancy Pope Jenkins. Annie was a nickname.Nancy (Annie) Pope Jenkins was the bride of James Osceola Byrd.

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Family Bible of Nancy (Annie) Pope Jenkins Byrd

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Wilson Allen 'Bill' Martin with wife and son

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Mattie Martin/Davis Gravestone at Cypress, FL Cemetary

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James Amander Cole. His ancestor (via marriage) is U.S. Grant. His daughter is Esther Cole/Martin. He was an engineer who built bridges in Florida, including the Keys. Ronald M Martin married his daughter and worked for him building bridges.

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Francis Osceola Martin, Georgia Lavinia Hall/Martin, & Ron Martin Sr.

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G.C. Bird (Grissom Cofield Bird). & Margaret Clary were married 1835 in Attapulgus,Ga. The Children: John S Bird born July 4,1839-Ocheesee,Fl. Calhoun Co.Fl. Elizabeth Bird born November 27,1840 married Jabez Martin. Julia Ann Bird born October 27,1842 & died September 18,1843 The next marriage to Elizabeth Smart children: James Bird born November 29,1846- died in the Civil War November 1864 Prisnor of War Laranuh Bird born September 28,1848 married Charles Compton Ellen Bird born April 11,1850 married John Regan William Cofield Bird born March 1852 married Minnie Martha Bird April 30,1855 married Thomas Bradwell Charles Bird born June 16,1858-died August 31,1881 in Hill Co.Texas Richard L.Bird born February 24,1862 died September 7,1862

Ronald M Martin fishing at Sebastan Inlet, back when their was plentiful fish in Indian River. This was a normal sized catch. Sometimes they caught huge fish. Grandpa would leave extra, un-needed fish on his back porch, where NDNs would retrieve them, and in return, they would leave him on his back porch, smoked coots/fish, fruits, and other foods. He knew the local NDNs in Vero Beach and could converse with them.

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John S Bird - born July 4,1839-Ocheesee,Fl. Calhoun Co.Fl. Son of Gressom Cofield Bird & Margaret Clary (married 1835 in Attapulgus,GA). See Gressom Cofield Bird for other brothers & sisters)

Left - Right Bertha Woernley-Cole of Steuben, NY, Esther Cole-Martin b1902 of NY, Jeannette Arlene Martin-Whiteside of Indian River County, FL and daughter, Connie. Photo taken on Lemon Ave. Vero Beach, FL

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Jeannie and a Sons of the Confederacy Re-enactor

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Picture of John W. Ward mother and sister

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Byrd Historical Photos

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Landlord - A Lower Mvskoke Creek A cool historic picture...

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Robert Caraway PFC. Related to Byrd family. In this picture he is doing KP during WW I I. Argie Holmes-Caraway is his mother.

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Argie Caraway. A very special person. Caraway NDNS did not hide out as they were a force to recon with ( War heroes from all wars ) and people feared them.

Sketch of Osceola by Henrietta Weedon. The sketch is believed to be Weedon's copy of the sketch by army topographer John Rogers Vinton, made around May of 1837. Vinton's was one of the few images from life of Osceola, and it was the source for many later images. See the many faces of Osceola in key images to look at more images of him. Florida Photographic Collection.

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Steamboat "Suits Me" which traveled Lake Iamonia. 1930

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Osceola's association with the Black Seminoles gave rise to a fascinating legend, one of the many that constellated around the chief. According to the story, Osceola was finally provoked to violence against the United States only after U.S. Indian Agent Thompson allowed slave raiders to kidnap his beautiful black wife in the summer of 1835. This story, circulated by abolitionists after 1839, has no known basis in fact. Scholars have agreed that it could have been true, given the occasional incidence of African-Seminole intermarriage, but it may well have been the fabrication of antislavery activists. Regardless of its veracity, however, the legend captured the essence of history, expressing the depth of the African-Seminole alliance.

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Osceola allegedly knifing the treaty of Fort Gibson, from the drawing in Andrew Welch's 1841 sketchbook of Seminole history, A Narrative of the Early Days and Remembraces of Oceola Nikkanoche ... . Welch was something of a sensationalist. He once invited audiences to watch him dress the wounds of a woman scalped by the Seminoles. After the war he adopted a young Seminole reputed to be the nephew of Osceola. He briefly toured England promoting the boy's story and his own sketchbook of Seminole history. The sketchbook included an entertaining diatribe against the U.S. position in the war, but the work conflated and exaggerated facts and was often outright inaccurate.

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Even if the story of Osceola's black wife was a fabrication, it was partially based on one of the best known events leading up to the war: the arrest of Osceola in June of 1835. Over the previous winter, Osceola had continued to resist emigration. Finally in June, after a heated argument, Wiley Thompson placed the chief in irons and threw him in the stockade. The incident enraged the Seminole warrior. For awhile he smoldered in anger. Then he calmed down and plotted revenge. To gain release, he promised to accept emigration. As a show of faith, he even rounded up seventy-nine followers to witness a statement to this effect. Wiley Thompson was so pleased that he wrote the President an exultant letter and gave Osceola a fine rifle. It was said that the chief accepted the rifle with a gleam in his eye. "I have now no doubt of his sincerity, and as little that the greatest difficulty is surmounted." -- Wiley Thompson to President Jackson in his report of June 3, 1835

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This Historical Marker was placed at the site of Tukabatchee. The marker was dedicated and unveiled Saturday October 1, 2011. Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma also attended, including descendants of those illegally forced to remove from this area. Thanks to Patti Hall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukabatchee

Vernon Bird

unsure exactly who this is, but would like to find out. looks like my grandma.

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I'm sure our folks went there (they are buried in Cypress).

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Osceola - Claimed Full Blood Muscogee Led Band in Second Seminole War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola By the terms of the Treaty of Paynes Landing (1832), the Seminole were supposed to migrate west of the Mississippi River within 36 months. By 1834, 3,824 Indians had made the move. The largest faction of Seminole, led by their chief Osceola (1804??1838), refused to go. Osceola vowed to fight "till the last drop of Seminole blood has moistened the dust of his hunting ground." In response to his resistance, Osceola was briefly imprisoned. A few months following his release, he commenced attacks on the Americans. On December 28, 1835 Osceola murdered Indian agent Wiley Thompson. The same day, Major Francis Dade and his U.S. soldiers were ambushed by 300 Seminole warriors near Fort King (Ocala). These incidents began the Second Seminole War. The natives retreated into the Everglades, began guerilla tactics against U.S. forces and fought desperately for more than seven years. By 1837, the Seminole apparently had managed to force a truce. During negotiations, however, Oceola was arrested and confined first at Saint Augustine, then Fort Moultrie at Charleston, South Carolina where he died on January 30, 1838. His followers fought on. By 1842, they were nearly exterminated. Some 4,420 Seminoles surrendered and were deported to Oklahoma. A few hundred managed to remain in the Everglades under the leadership of Billy Bowlegs, their principal chief. The Third Seminole War would ensue. The Second Seminole War proved to be the most expensive of the Indian Wars in which the United States was involved. It cost the lives of thousands of Seminole and 1,500 U.S. soldiers, as well as more than $30 million.

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Signed the Second Treaty of Indian Springs http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stiddemdavid&id=I48